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Does anyone know of a map which was used by the Roman Empire as a map of the world? Most maps overlay historical territory over accurate 21st century maps; but does anyone have a link to a map of the world that would have been used in Roman schools at the time of the Empire?
I viewed several in about ten seconds by going to yahoo search, entering "ancient rome world map", clicking on images, then clicking search.
Mostly they are modern maps, but you see some ancient ones there. I am not going to post a link over such an obvious search tactic.
There wouldn't have been "a" map. There weren't that many schools, outside of Rome, until fairly late in the Empire, and even those wouldn't generally have taught geography except as a practical application of geometry. Given the typical curriculum, a map would have been a basically irrelevant luxury. There would only have been a comparative few maps around at all, given that each would be a custom creation, drawn by hand at a particular time by a particular individual for a particular purpose. The idea of a single authoritative map that would help construct a common, shared understanding of the geography of the world or even a portion of it couldn't really arise until the era of mechanical printing and engraving.
Does anyone know of a map which was used by the Roman Empire as a map of the world? Most maps overlay historical territory over accurate 21st century maps; but does anyone have a link to a map of the world that would have been used in Roman schools at the time of the Empire?
The only one i know of is the ''Map of Macrobius'' that he produced during the late 400's A.D. in Alexandria as he created it from the discriptions that the Roman sailors had depicted to him as Rome (Republic and Empire) and the Han Dynasty had a vast oceanic trade network amongst them (est 206 B.C. to 220 A.D).
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